Must-Reads: September 7, 2016
- : The Case for the Entrepreneurial State: Mariana Mazzucato… contends that, contrary to the claims of GOP presidential hopefuls, the American economy has benefited immensely from government intervention…
- Claudia Sahm: Telling Macro Stories with Micro: Economists are avid storytellers…
- Paul Krugman: Thinking About Brexit, Fast and Slow: “The City’s smartest people are being forced to admit they were wrong about a ‘Brecession’”…
- Lawrence Summers: The Fed’s Complacency About Its Current Toolbox Is Unwarranted: I was disappointed in what came out of Jackson Hole for three reasons…
Should Reads:
- Cathy O’Neil: How algorithms rule our working lives
- Claire Montialoux: Revisiting the Impact of Head Start
- Laurence Ball et al.: What else can central banks do?
- Carola Binder and Alex Rodriguez: Monetary Rules and Targets: Finding the Best Path to Full Employment
- Evelyn Lamb: Review: Weapons of Math Destruction: In an important new book, Cathy O’Neil warns us that algorithms can and do perpetuate inequality…
- Sid Verma: The Fed Poses a Big Risk to the Emerging Market Inflow Party
- Comment of the Day: Yep. It’s called “the market economy”: Eggplant: Negishi Prices